Registry No. HKK 14/14
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DRAFT LETTER
To:-
S T Kidd Esq
Acting Deputy Colonial Secretary
HONG KONG
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HKK 14/30 (34)
HKK 14/14 (2)
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(31 & (35)
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APPOINTMENTS TO THE SUPREME COURT
1.
Rather belatedly I wish to refer to my letter
No HKK 14/30 of 4 November 1970, addressed to ?
Holmes, the then Acting Colonial Secretary, on
appointments from the Bar to the Supreme Court.
2.
Much of this letter was devoted to the advisability
or otherwise of appointments to the Supreme Court being
made from the Bar and to the form of reply to be sent to
Gerald de Bas to who had been conducting a campaign on the
subject. From the Governor's Saving Despatch No Staff
32 of 10 March you will recall the suggestion to issue a
circular to all officers of the Judiciary and the three
government legal departments warning them that
appointments from Bar to Supreme Court were a possibility.
Our comments on this proposal eventually reached you in
my letter No HKK 14/14 of 7 July to Hugh Norman-Walker
and the matter rests with your telegram No 499 and our
reply No 548.
3. The final paragraph of my letter to Holmes raised
the question of pensions in respect of Judges appointed
from the local Bar and it is on this subject you may care
to have the benefit of ODA advice.
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